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A pedestrian who was struck during a hit-and-run on Interstate 95 in Greenwich early Sunday morning has died and state police are looking for the vehicle that may have been involved. Troopers responded to I-95 South near exit 3 around 4:30 a.m. for a report of a hazardously disabled vehicle. While they were responding, it was reported that a pedestrian…

Patrick Gordiski, recently retired from the Greenwich Fire Department, spent days in New York City assisting in the response at Ground Zero.

The band is playing tonight in Vernon and tomorrow is Greenwich.

One of the pilots on a small plane that crashed in the median of Interstate 684 in Greenwich in December had called air traffic controllers before the fatal crash and said the plane was losing its engine, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The agency has released its preliminary report on the Dec. 12 crash that killed a passenger…

Masuk defeated Windsor 24-21 to win the Class MM title on Friday. Jackson Zylick kicked a field goal to win the Panthers their first football state championship since 2010. “I mean it’s unreal. You see it go through, the world stops,” said Zylick. “Like man we just did it. After all we’ve been through, all season we just battled...

Coverage of Ansonia’s record-setting performance, and other high school football championship games played this weekend.

Detectives said Jacob Friedman of Monsey, New York, was a passenger on the plane that crashed on I-684 near the New York-Connecticut border when it was trying to land after the engine failed. Friedman died in the crash, while the pilot suffered injuries as well. NBC New York’s Romney Smith reports.

A New York man died after a small plane crashed in the median of Interstate 684 in Greenwich, near the New York border, on Thursday night and the pilot suffered minor injuries, according to Connecticut state police. State troopers responded to the highway, between exits 2 and 3, around 7:54 p.m. and they found a pilot and one passenger on…

A firetruck crashed into a pole while responding to a call in Greenwich early Thursday morning. It happened during wintry weather overnight. The fire department said the crash happened on a back road. No other cars were involved in the crash, and firefighters on the truck were taken to the hospital as a precaution. They have all since been released….

Greenwich police are investigating after a young child allegedly hit another kid during a game of tag because of her religion. The police department said the parent of an elementary school-aged child reported that her kid was hit in the face because of her Jewish faith. Another kid appears to have struck the child at a local party on Friday,…

A Greenwich police cruiser is destroyed after a brush fire ignited during a call on Wednesday. The police department said an officer responding to a medical call helped a person while away from their cruiser when it ignited. A brush fire started during the incident, causing the police car to catch fire, authorities said. No one was hurt. The police…

Greenwich police believe members of a group that is affiliated with a transnational criminal organization have been burglarizing luxury homes in town and they are investigating. Greenwich police said a group known to law enforcement as the “South American Theft Group,” an element of a transnational criminal organization, is suspected of some recent burglaries. They have targeted high-valued homes in…

After nearly 16 years down in Washington, Rep. Jim Himes feels like he knows what his voters are looking for.   “The Fourth District, in particular, has always put a premium on independent thought,” Himes, (D – 4th District), said.   He faces two opponents in his re-election bid that say he’s not serving those voters’ best interests, though.  …

Democrats have held all five of our state’s congressional districts since 2008, when Jim Himes flipped the 4th.

Long before Ethel Kennedy became a matriarch to one the most powerful political dynasties in American history she was a little girl who grew up in Connecticut. The world knew Ethel Skakel Kennedy as the wife of U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy, but her own story started on April 11, 1928, when…

A bus transporting Greenwich freshman football players home from a game went the wrong way on Interstate 95 Monday night. The school district said it happened in the Norwalk area on I-95. The bus driver needed to re-enter the highway because of heavy traffic and detours, but did so in the wrong direction. Officials described the incident as disturbing, and…

Two firefighters were taken to the hospital with injuries after battling a fire in Greenwich early Thursday morning. Assistant Fire Chief Justin McCarthy said crews responded to a home in the area of Ridge and Bruce Park just after 4 a.m. Firefighters found a house that was under construction on fire. McCarthy said crews put out hot spots from a…

A woman has been arrested for allegedly stealing over $800,000 from the Boy’s and Girl’s Club, according to police. The incident happened in December 2022. Greenwich police were contacted by the Boy’s and Girl’s Club of Greenwich to report a fraud involving one of their financial accounts. The police department said that due to some fraudulent email activity, one...

Greenwich firefighters had a busy day on Sunday and responded to more than a dozen calls within a 12-hour period. On Sunday afternoon, fire officials said since 6 a.m., firefighters responded to over 20 calls for service. The calls included gas emergencies, storm-related flooding and multiple major accidents. Photos posted by the fire department show jack-knifed tractor-trailers. It’s unclear if…

A person was struck by a train at the Cos Cob train station in Greenwich on Saturday and there are delays on the Metro-North New Haven Line to Grand Central. Metro-North originally said there was an unauthorized person on the tracks near Cos Cob around 8:45 a.m. The company later posted on X saying someone had been struck by a…